Based in France, Smatis serves over 160,000 customers, providing insurance and healthcare coverage, and is responsible for secure use and storage of confidential customer information. Smatis wanted to explore cloud technology to reduce costs and improve IT efficiency. To be sure that the compliance required by their industry could be met and sustained, intensive testing was undertaken. Smatis uses the AWS Cloud for test and development, POC Pre-production, and production workloads, while remaining fully compliant for Solvency II, their industry requirement.